Name/TitleThe Brontës
MakerMasson, Flora
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectSmall hardback book with green covers titled 'The Brontës' by Flora Masson. The chapter headings are:
I. The Parson and his wife
II. Haworth
III. The Tragedy of Cowan Bridge
IV. The Brontë Children at Home
V. Miss Wooler's School
VI. The Pride of the Family
VII. The Pen, the Palette, and the Poet Laureate
VIII. "Qualified to Teach"
IX. Pensionnat Héger
X. Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
XI. The Valley of the Shadow
XII. The Zenith
XIII. The Passing of Currer Bell
- Chronology
- References
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, board and paper
MeasurementsH: 165 x W: 110 x D: 9 mm
Date Made1912
Period19th century
Place MadeEngland, London
Place NotesT.C. & E.C. Jack, 67 Long Acre, London, W.C.
PublisherT.C. & E.C. Jack
Publication Date1912
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Series TitleThe People's Books
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontë_family:
The Brontës (/ˈbrɒntiz/) were a 19th century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell respectively. Their stories attracted attention for their passion and originality immediately following their publication. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were accepted as masterpieces of literature after their deaths.
The first Brontë children to be born to rector Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria were Maria (1814–1825) and Elizabeth (1815–1825), who both died at young ages due to disease. Charlotte, Emily and Anne were then born within approximately four years. These three sisters and their brother, Branwell (1817–1848), who was born after Charlotte and before Emily, were very close to each other. As children, they developed their imaginations first through oral storytelling and play, set in an intricate imaginary world, and then through the collaborative writing of increasingly complex stories set in their fictional world. The deaths of their mother and two older sisters marked them and influenced their writing profoundly, as did their isolated upbringing. They were raised in a religious family. The Brontë birthplace in Thornton is a place of pilgrimage and their later home, the parsonage at Haworth in Yorkshire, now the Brontë Parsonage Museum, has hundreds of thousands of visitors each year [continues].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Masson:
Flora Masson was born in Edinburgh. She was first of three daughters of professor David Masson and suffrage campaigner Emily Rosaline Orme. Her father was chair of the English department at the University of Edinburgh. Her younger brother was a scientist, David Orme Masson, and her younger sisters were Helen and suffragist and writer, Rosaline Masson. Their aunt, Eliza Orme, was the first woman to earn a law degree in England. Because of her parents' social connections, Masson met Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Coventry Patmore and James Barrie in her youth, and heard Charles Dickens read from Oliver Twist, among other acquaintances with notables of the nineteenth century. Flora Masson trained as a nurse at St. Thomas's Hospital, London [continues].
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's history
Subject and Association Keywords(auto) biography
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's writing & literature
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
Object numberGWL-2025-86-2
Spine LabelTHE BRONTËS
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